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Originally Posted by aceventura3
So, if I talk about FDR's failings in terms of the internment camps, but I still think that on a net basis he was a good President - that makes me nuts???
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't dismiss the signifigance of Bush's failings, I just keep them in perspective. I also understand making a choice on principle or conviction to do certain things outside of the norm or even possibly illegal. I.e. - Wiretaps, something I would have done as President.
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That's the part that's nuts. You take the whole massive list of the administration's varied and multipartate malfeasance, you walk your way through it, and you say, "Well, so and so did something like that.", "Ah, well, that's forgiveable.", "Hey, I'd have done the same". And in the end, that whole list--impeachable, perhaps even treasonable if seen in the right light--vanishes into a cloud of justification.
If you had a record of being a centrist, then MAYBE I could go along with some of the justifications. But given the Bush Fanboy you've been, it's awfully hard to hear that as anything but confirmation bias at best, or partisan bullshit at worst.
(Incidentally, I was using "nuts" colloquially, and followed it by a winking smiley. I trust you read it in the spirit it was intended.)